irretrievable

The definition of irretrievable is something that cannot be retrieved, restored, fixed or put right.

(adjective)

When your computer hard drive permanently loses all your data, this is an example of a time when the data is irretrievable.

See irretrievable in Webster's New World College Dictionary

adjective

that cannot be retrieved, recovered, restored, or recalled

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See irretrievable in American Heritage Dictionary 4

adjective

Difficult or impossible to retrieve or recover: Once the ring fell down the drain, it was irretrievable.

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